Javelins Weidu

Some people noticed that there where Javelins in the gamefiles. They work but the coding was not finished.

To make unloved items more loveable, I first put some work in Clubs. Now the spears are next, by fixing the ranged version, the JAVELIN . there is one in the game files, and it works. But the coding was not consistent with spears and trowing axes. I fixed that and put it in stores that sell spears (and in the missle store of the Black Pits).

Its Weidu, Try it out (it should work)

Its not for BG2:EE at the moment. soon it will be.If you want to use it in bg2ee, you can delete the stores in the tp2. And replace them with the stores where you want to put them in.

If there is need for magical and/or returning javelins. I can make them!

Leave a Like or comment if you try it, because I have no way to now if there are downloaders. I like to know if my mods are used!

you should make the gloves of endless javelins' projectile graphics glow (just tinted in some bright color) because the description says they are "made of force", rather than a material, conjured weapon

i wouldn't associate them with anti-undead properties because i've always seen undead as somehow inherently more resistant to ranged attacks (azuredge throwing axe is an exception but it's a slashing weapon)

bonus against spiders sounds nice. bonus against animals might also make sense because it's an archetypal hunting tool.

I checked out this mod today, but it doesn't work for me. It crashes my game when I enter Nashkel Carnival (it's the area where the merchant appears)Still, I've just thrown (no pun intended) an idea for more throwing weapons.

@Kirkor Sorry for the late reaction, but the notification hot drowned in AdventurY notifications.

1 handed javelins are not implemented. I did not have many reactions so I thought no one was using the mod. I have a bunch of half finished work, on 1 handed and magical javelins. But not much time to test.

I tried using this mod; it's installed on BGEE currently and it "works" - as in, no crashes, the 2-handed javelin appears in store, is equippable, and I can change modes, but a couple issues:

So for one thing (and this is probably beyond the scope of the mod) the javelin is still considered a melee weapon for the purposes of party AI, so for instance using BP Series AI Scripts, the character will treat it as a melee weapon and switch to another ranged weapon instead of throwing a javelin. It does this sometimes with some other ranged weapons (like the Staff of Wizardry's ranged attack), so that's probably not something you could fix. But for two, the melee and ranged modes are labeled as the opposite for me; picking ranged causes the character to have 1 equipped javelin, close in and use melee attacks, picking melee shows the whole stack, but the character throws a javelin. Now, the character WILL attack with thrown javelins in melee mode (only if the AI script if turned off for the character or party AI is off), but the speed factor (labeled as 6) is fairly abysmal, 3-5 seconds standing still between attacks - it's like using a crossbow with gimped bolts. Druids are better off using a +1 sling with enchanted bullets for ranged combat.

If javelins were a little faster and did more damage, particularly if they were 1-handed so Druids could use them with bucklers, and if you made some unique or enchanted versions, then they might be worth using, but as of right now it's mostly just an impractical novelty.

I like the club mod. If you decided to follow through with making new, fully functional javelins, I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one to use them. I definitely like the idea of lightning and anti-undead javelins (someone should make anti-undead/vampire "stakes" as crossbow ammo).

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I see that you have been active on the forum lately, so at the risk certainty of committing threadomancy, have you had a chance to work on this mod lately? Is it available for BG2ee now? I love the idea of javelins. The lightning spear especially would be an amazing item for a Talos cleric.